# Ruth Brandon

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The Turn of the Screw

Crazy, or crazy like a fox? A very Victorian fox who is still weirdly obsessed with children, but nonetheless, a fox? Find out what we thought as we discuss Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW, what exactly it meant to be a governess, and the Spiritualism movement of the 19th century. For more inf…

Prison... foot fetishes... bondage blogs... and more

Katrina Ruth: Give them a chance to get on. Patrick Grabbs: Okay. I'm ignoring you then. Katrina Ruth: Usually, what I do when I go on is pretend that I'm doing something. But, I'm not really doing. I'm just pretending that I'm doing something. Patrick Grabbs: What's that? Katrina Ruth: So, I j…

Resolve

Katrina Ruth: Welcome. Hi humans. What is happening? Interesting. Interesting. Very interesting. There's people. Hello to the people. Hi Kendra. Kendra, I feel like I haven't seen you in a long while. Katrina Ruth: I am doing the thing that you do when you go live, which is you just kinda fuck aro…

Alexis Soyer

A brief look at the life of one of the first celebrity chefs

Houdini Among the Spirits

Just in time for Halloween! In the first of two parts, we will weave a kind of dual biography: Harry Houdini and the spiritualist movement. While Houdini is perfecting his craft to become the world's most famous illusionist, scores of Americans and Europeans are being drawn into darkened rooms with…

13: Houdini + Sarah Winchester

CW: References to invasive medical exams (not graphic), alcohol use and alcoholism, death and child loss (not detailed), spiritualism and séance practices, accusations of fraud and public humiliation, and gender-based scrutiny and mistreatment. In this episode, Heather explores the surprising over…

S9 Ep33: Did the sewing machine liberate women?

In January 1860 the New York Times gave its blessing to a new machine: the sewing machine. These "iron needle-women", it wrote, were the only invention that could be claimed “chiefly for women's benefit”. Sewing was women's work in the nineteenth century, rich or poor, and a machine could now do …